I never saw the Alt key referred to as anything else than Alt

On MacOS it is option or something

Tbh custom libadwaitas are kind of how GTK4 is supposed to be used.

QT is built from the ground up to be used by anyone

Well, KDEs Qt fork (I think they have one). Qt is released proprietary and the older versions are open source. Which may make it pretty well funded but also always behind on updates.

just a toolkit for GNOME.

Tbh after reading a recent blog post, I think this is not true at all.

Like theming can be shipped as part of the platform toolkit or something.

Budgie made a crazy turn. From a legacy GTK based desktop to Wayland and Qt??

I dont know why Qt but I guess it is good

No they are interchangeable

Compatible with them? Was that a requirement?

Well, but Flatpak also has the rule to not break anything by default.

And they call things like changing filesystem=host to the specific directories (home, run, mnt) “security theatre” and prefer waiting forever for legacy apps to magically fix it

Likely because of user namespace access

So security updates are open source? Not like security preview releases that are under embargo?

Well that makes it less problematic. Android apps are independent from the core OS and half of the people is running old versions, so the ecosystem doesnt really depend on the latest and greatest.

Still shit, but less bad.

1. Install F-Droid basic from f-droid.org
2. Search for “f-droid known repositories” on the web
3. Add the izzyondroid repo
4. Reload repos
5. Search for “money”
6. Profit

So GrapheneOS and any other OS that cares a bit about security need to ship proprietary updates.

And if this is everything of 6 months, this is pretty insane

Many

KMyMoney, GNU Cash, many other independent ones

Wtf…

Good choice I think, way too sensitive to just work like that

Did you know that ShitDows doesnt support middle mouse button for anything? XD it opens the start menu like all the time

No opening in new tab or closing tabs

Dafuck

You are talking about global themes which is a bundle of plasmoids (which are executable code), SDDM themes (executable code, they are working on their own login manager to change that) as well as simple files like color schemes, cursor themes, icon themes, splash screens.

I can list random things I noticed

• KDE essential apps are often more powerful, like Gwenview (the only modern FOSS viewer with many edit capabilities) or Okular. Installing them works but the theme may look ugly and it pulls in half of the DE
• some core apps like Spectacle or the powerful search / krunner cannot be used
• no wayland support means you are restricted to ancient insecure technology
• the filemanager is extremely restricting in comparison to dolphin. Like afaik you cannot even add arbitrary folders to the sidebar! They are linked to a “favourites” folder or something, very annoying. I assume it has no filtering either. The date display in list view is pretty ugly by default, maybe that can be changed
• …

I dont use Cinnamon lol, for reasons. Too many family members blindly used it and I hate it.

since I have a terminal at my fingertips

This is not what a DE is for. If you need a terminal, the DE is not good. I also heavily use the terminal but I am talking about a good general use desktop.

weird selection of apps has me lost

They diverge from GNOME for theming or whatever, and either have weird apps for things like PDF viewing preinstalled, or the people that used it preinstalled those.

As it is neither KDE nor GNOME, it kinda uses GNOME apps but not really. Simply a pretty bad situation. On KDE I use a bunch of GNOME apps and thanks to libadwaita they all look and works fine. That is actually an antifeature of KDE apps, but if you are on KDE they are fine XD

comes with stuff installed that you might expect

That always results in opinionated defaults. People seem to get along fine and I still have a vanilla LMDE VM I have not tried.

I also don’t know what you mean by filtering flathub.

Then maybe look it up ;) it is easy to find. Deb packages have way more attack surface than flatpaks, making this even worse. People install spotify as an unrestricted deb package instead of in a sandbox for example. Fucking spotify.

so you can apt or apt-get install

It is a DE for people who literally know nothing about Linux. The GUI store needs sensible defaults and it doesnt really have those currently due to their controversial (and unsafe) decision to hide unverified flatpaks

Basically all XOrg vs. Wayland issues

• no fractional scaling, or if there is, with big performance issues
• no HDR
• no mixed DPI or FPS
• in total very bad multi monitor support (it was hacked in afterwards, not really intended from the ground up)

No idea about VR but I assume it works well on KDE or GNOME (depending on what you mean, people use Meta quest as an external display)

Well that is probably dash to panel. Or does it autohide somehow?